Jocelyn Viterna
Harvard University Department of Sociology
504 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Phone (617) 495-7569
Fax (617) 496-5794
E-mail [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2011-
2007-2011
2003-2007
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Co-director, Transnational Studies Initiative
Faculty Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Standing Committee, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University
(Two-year tenure clock extension; parental leave)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Tulane University (One-year tenure clock extension; Hurricane Katrina)
EDUCATION
2003
2000
1995
Ph.D. Indiana University-Bloomington, Sociology
M.A. Indiana University-Bloomington, Sociology
B.A. Kansas State University, Sociology and Latin American Studies (summa cum laude)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
2017
Backslide: The Latin American Counter-Revolution in Reproductive Rights. [Proposal available].
Oxford University Press [under advance contract].
2013
Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador. Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming in Spanish as Mujeres en la Guerra: Los Micro-procesos de Movilización en El
Salvador. San Salvador: UCA Editores (Universidad Centroamericana de El Salvador).
Recognition received for Women in War:
Mirra Komarovsky Distinguished Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological
Association
Distinguished Book Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association
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Global Division Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Study of Social
Problems
Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Development Section
of the American Sociological Association
Invited for Author Meets Critic section at the American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting
One of ten books listed as “required reading” by the Women’s Media Center in their
“Women Under Siege” project
http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/required-reading-10-bookson-sexualized-violence-gender-and-war
Reviewed in Mobilization, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, ReVista, Choice, the
Manhattan Mercury, and the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Articles and Chapters:
2016
Levitt, Peggy, Charlotte Lloyd, Armin Mueller, and Jocelyn Viterna. “Transnational Social
Protection: Setting the Agenda.” Oxford Development Studies, Conditionally Accepted.
2016
Fallon, Kathleen M. and Jocelyn Viterna. “Gender, the State, and Development.” Invited
Chapter for the Handbook of the Sociology of Development, edited by Gregory Hooks. Oxford
University Press.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn and Cassandra Robertson. “New Directions in the Sociology of
Development.” Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 41:1-27.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn, Emily Clough and Killian Clarke. “Reclaiming the ‘Third Sector’ from ‘Civil
Society’: A New Agenda for Development Studies.” Sociology of Development 1(1):173-207.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Conceiving while Poor; Imprisoned for Murder” NACLA Report on the
Americas. Fall. 47(3). Pp. 34-37.
Reprinted December 2014 as “El Salvador Imprisons 17 Women Who Lost Their
Newborns for Murder” on the Global Voices website.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/12/16/el-salvador-imprisons-17-women-who-losttheir-newborns-as-murderers/
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Radical or Righteous? Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of
Political Violence.” Pp. 189-216 in Dynamics of Political Violence: A Process-Oriented Perspective on
Radicalization and the Escalation of Political Conflict, edited by Lorenzo Bosi, Chares Demetriou,
and Stefan Malthaner. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2012
Fallon, Kathleen M., Liam Swiss, and Jocelyn Viterna. “Resolving the Democracy Paradox:
Democratization and Women’s Legislative Representation in Developing Nations, 19752009.” American Sociological Review 77 (3): 380-408.
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2012
Viterna, Jocelyn. “The Left and ‘Life’: The Politics of Abortion in El Salvador.” Politics and
Gender 8 (2): 248-254.
2009
Silber, Irina Carlota and Viterna, Jocelyn. “Women in El Salvador: Continuing the Struggle.”
Pp. 329-351 in Women and Politics around the World: A Comparative History and Survey, edited by
Joyce Gelb and Marian Lief Palley. ABC-CLIO.
2008
Viterna, Jocelyn and Kathleen M. Fallon. “Democratization, Women’s Movements, and
Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison.” American Sociological Review 73 (4):
668-689.
2008
Viterna, Jocelyn, Kathleen M. Fallon, and Jason Beckfield. “How Development Matters: A
Research Note on the Relationship between Development, Democracy, and Women's
Political Representation.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 49 (6): 455-477.
An earlier version of this paper was published in 2007 as: “Development, Democracy and
Women’s Legislative Representation: Re-Visiting Existing Explanations of Cross-National
Variation.” Working Papers on Women in International Development #288. Women and
International Development Program, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI.
2008
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Negotiating the Muddiness of Grassroots Field Research: Managing
Identity and Data in Rural El Salvador.” Pp. 271-97 in Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating
Ethnographic Identities in Field Research, edited by Martha Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek.
Rowman and Littlefield.
2006
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Pulled, Pushed and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s Mobilization into the
Salvadoran Guerrilla Army.” American Journal of Sociology 112 (1): 1-45. (Lead article)
Reprinted in 2014 in The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (third edition), edited by
Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2005
Hite, Amy Bellone and Jocelyn Viterna. “Gendering Class in Latin America: How Women
Effect and Experience Change in the Class Structure.” Latin American Research Review 40 (2):
50-82.
Translated and re-printed in 2008 as “Sozialstrukturveränderungen und ihre Auswirkungen
auf die Geschlechterverhältnisse,” pp. 171-194 in Sozialstrukturen in Lateinamerika, edited by
Dieter Boris, Therese Gerstenlauer, Alke Jenss, Kristy Schank, and Johannes Schulten
(Hrsg.). Wiesbaden:VS Verlag
2005
Bradshaw, York W., Kathleen M. Fallon, and Jocelyn Viterna. 2005. “Wiring the World:
Access to Information Technology and Development in Poor Countries.” Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility 23: 375-97.
2002
Viterna, Jocelyn and Douglas W. Maynard. 2002. “How Uniform is ‘Standardization?’:
Variation Within and Across Survey Centers Regarding Protocols for Interviewing.” Pp.
365-397 in Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview, edited
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by Douglas W. Maynard, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Johannes
van der Zouwen. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1999
Redding, Kent and Jocelyn Viterna. 1999. “Political Demands, Political Opportunities:
Explaining the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties.” Social Forces 78 (2): 491-510.
Public Engagement:
2015
Special Guest on the hour-long talk show of the Latino Media Collective. “A Pardon for
Carmen Guadalupe; What will be the Fate of the Other 16?” WPFW 89.3 FM. Washington,
DC. January 30.
2014
Special Guest on the hour-long talk show of the Latino Media Collective. “The Criminalization
of Reproduction in El Salvador.” WPFW 89.3 FM. Washington, DC. December 12.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn and Jose Santos Guardado Bautista. “Principios Legales vs. Discriminación
de Género.” El Faro. November 17.
http://www.elfaro.net/es/201411/academico/16241/Principios-legales-versusdiscriminación-de-género-El-caso-de-las-17.htm
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn and Jose Santos Guardado Bautista. “Independent Analysis of Systematic
Gender Discrimination in the El Salvador Judicial Process.” [White Paper.]
Reviewed by members of the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly, the Salvadoran
Ombudsman on Human Rights, and the Salvadoran Supreme Court.
Spanish version, “Análises Independiente de la Discriminación Sistemática de
Género en el Proceso Judicial de El Salvador”
2014
Expert Witness at the Second Tribunal of Conscience/Justice for Women, broadcast live on
La Radio de Todas. San Salvador, El Salvador. November 5.
http://colectivafeminista.org.sv/radio-de-todas.html
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “La Historia de Dos Mujeres que Participaron en la Guerra.” El Faro
(Salvadoran newspaper). March 3. http://www.elfaro.net/es/201403/academico/14929/
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Mujeres en la Guerra: Quienes Ganan, Quienes Pierden.” El Faro
(Salvadoran newspaper). February 24.
http://www.elfaro.net/es/201402/academico/14850/
2013
Special Guest on Greater Boston with Emily Rooney. “Black Lives Matter, But Will it Last, and
Can it Effect Change?” WGBH Public Television. December 9.
http://video.wgbh.org/video/2365386252/
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Works in progress:
Journal:
2016
Peggy Levitt and Jocelyn Viterna (Editors). Global Social Protection. Special Issue of the Oxford
Development Studies journal.
Articles:
Viterna, Jocelyn. “How (Failed) Movements Matter: Abortion, Incarceration, and the
Institutionalization of Movement Outcomes in Central America.” [Draft available.]
Viterna, Jocelyn, Jose Santos Guardado Bautista, and Silvia Juárez Barrios. “Institutional
Discrimination: Critical Impediment to Gender Equality and Development.” [Proposal Selected for
2017 publication by the United Nations University from more than 430 entries]
Viterna, Jocelyn, Killian Clarke and Charlotte Lloyd. “Recruiting ‘Projects’: The Effects of
Development Aid on Local Level Inequalities and Community Mobilization.” [Paper in preparation]
Viterna, Jocelyn and Bo Yun Park. “Cultural Innovation Requires Moral Tethers: Strategic uses of
Identity in Social Movements” [Paper in Preparation]
Luft, Aliza and Jocelyn Viterna. “The State of the Field of Women in War.” [Paper in preparation]
Book Reviews:
2013
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Writing the Rough Draft of Salvadoran History.” Review of El Salvador
Could Be Like That: A Memoir of War, Politics, and Journalism from the Front Row of the Last Bloody
Conflict of the U.S. –Soviet Cold War by Joseph B. Frazier. Karina Library Press. Re-Vista:
Harvard Review of Latin America. 13 (1): 86-88.
2009
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005 by Paul
D. Almeida. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. American Journal of Sociology.
115 (3): 966-968.
2007
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba by
Julie D. Shayne. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. American Journal of Sociology. 112
(5): 1584-6.
2005
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador by Elisabeth
Jean Wood. New York: Cambridge University Press. American Journal of Sociology 111 (1):
304-6.
2004
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American
Life by Katherine Walsh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mobilization 9 (3): 356-7.
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2003
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas,
Cuba by Karen Kampwirth. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Journal of Gender Studies 12 (2): 157-8.
2002
Viterna, Jocelyn. Review of Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America by Cecilia
Menjivar. Berkeley: University of California Press. Journal of Gender Studies 11 (2): 187-9.
MEDIA COVERAGE
2015
Research featured in Enfoque Jurídico, a Salvadoran legal studies journal. “El Paso de Jocelyn
Viterna por El Salvador.” June 5. http://www.enfoquejuridico.info/wp/archivos/3014
2015
Quoted in the Center for Reproductive Rights’ report, Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Latin
America: Implications for Democracy.
http://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/IAD9794
Repro Rights_web.pdf
2015
Research featured in Cosmopolitan. “Why a Woman Who Says She Didn’t Know She Was
Pregnant Is Serving a 40-Year Sentence for the Death of her Baby.” February 11.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a36366/las-17-jocelyn-viterna/
2015
Research featured in Salvadoran Newspaper El Faro. “El Abuso de Fortín Magaña contra las
17.” January 4. http://m.elfaro.net/es/201501/opinion/16428/El-abuso-deFort%C3%ADn-Magaña-contra-las-17.htm
2015
Research featured in Against the Current. “El Salvador Feminists Fight for Justice.” May-June.
https://solidarity-us.org/site/node/4415
2015
Research featured in RH Reality Check. “Salvadoran Council Uses Poverty to Justify Keeping
“Las 17” in Prison.” January 7, 2015.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/01/07/salvadoran-council-uses-poverty-justifykeeping-las-17-prison/
2015
Research featured in International Viewpoint. “Feminists in El Salvador Continue Fight for
Justice for Women Imprisoned for Obstetrical Complications.” March 19.
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3929
2014
Quoted in the Kansas City Star. “In a Year of Discontent, Social Justice Issues Flare Near and
Far into Protests.” December 20.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article4748673.html
2014
Quoted in The Lexington Herald-Leader. “UK Doctor Finds Live Birth Test Flawed in
Prosecution of El Salvadoran Women.” October 26.
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/26/3503027_uk-doctor-finds-live-birth-test.html?rh=1
2011
Quoted in Voice of America. “Violence, Bias Impede Women’s Progress in Central America.”
May 4. http://www.voanews.com/content/violence-bias-impede-women-progress-centralamerica-121332339/164408.html
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2009
Quoted in The Boston Globe. “Area Salvadorans Look Back with Hope” by Maria Sacchetti.
July 13
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/13/area_salvadorans
_look_back_with_hope/
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. “The Role of Sociology in Development Studies.” Kellogg Institute for
International Studies, Notre Dame University.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Como un Mortinato se Convierte en Asesinato.” Quinta Reunión de
Investigación sobre el Embarazo No Deseado y el Aborto Inseguro: Retos de Salud Pública
en América Latina y el Caribe. Population Council, México.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. “How (Failed) Movements Matter: Abortion, Incarceration, and the
Institutionalization of Movement Outcomes in Central America.” Invited for presentation
at:
Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Director’s Seminar
Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Women, Gender and Health Interdisciplinary
Program
Harvard University Department of Sociology, Mixed-Methods Workshop
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Notre Dame University, Department of Sociology
Tufts University, Latin American Studies
University of Connecticut, Department of Sociology
University of Chicago, Department of Sociology.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. “El Poder del Discurso Político: Aborto y la Cultura de Criminalización en
El Salvador.” Workshop sponsored by the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of
Therapeutic and Ethical Abortion and for reasons of Fetal Anomaly. San Salvador, El
Salvador.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. When Women Wage War. Author Meets Critic Session. American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn. “How Miscarriage becomes Murder: Analyzing the Origin of El Salvador’s
Total Ban on Abortion.” Thematic Session. American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting. Chicago, IL.
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2014
“Un Entendimiento Sociológico de la Violencia de Género.” Segundo Tribunal de
Conciencia de Justicia para Las Mujeres: Nicaragua, El Salvador. [Covered by several
Salvadoran newspapers]. Red Feminista. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Uncontestable: The Power and Cost of Mobilizing Motherhood for Social
Change.” European University Institute, Florence.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Motherhood in War and Peace: The Role of Uncontested Identities in
Social Mobilization.” Harvard Academy Scholars Alumni Conference. Cambridge, MA.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Motherhood in War and Peace: The Role of Uncontested Identities in
Social Mobilization.” Harvard Culture, Psychiatry, and Global Mental Health Seminar.
Cambridge, MA.
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Women in War: The Case of El Salvador.” Invited for presentation at:
University of Oregon, Américas Research Interest Group of the Center for the Study of
Women in Society
Dartmouth University, Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture
2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Pregnancy and the Forty-year Prison Sentence: Countermovements,
Targets, and Social Movement Outcomes in Central America.” Invited for presentation at:
University of California-Los Angeles, Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series.
Boston College, Movement/Media Research and Action Project.
2013
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Neither State nor Civil Society: Reconceptualizing the ‘NGO Regime’ and
Its Consequences for the Global South.” Thematic Session. American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY.
2013
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Studying Women Guerrillas in Rural El Salvador.” Qualitative Social
Science at Harvard Conference: Directions in Knowledge Making.
2012
Viterna, Jocelyn. “La Paradójica de la Democracia: Democratización y la Representación de
Mujeres en las Asambleas Legislativas de los Países en Desarrollo, 1975-2009.” Políticas de
Equidad Social a Escala Local: Metodologías de Diagnóstico y Evaluación with CIPS Social
Mobility and Equity Group. Havana, Cuba.
2012
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Re-mobilization, De-mobilization, or Incarceration? Understanding the
Personal and Political Consequences of Guerrilla Participation for Women—and Women’s
Rights—Twenty Years Later.” Thematic Session. Latin American Studies Association
Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.
2012
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Radical or Righteous? Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of
Political Violence.” John E. Sawyer Seminar on Globalization and the New Politics of
Women’s Rights. Madison, Wisconsin.
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2012
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Radical or Righteous? Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of
Political Violence.” McGill University Sociology Seminar. Montreal, Quebec.
2011
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Feminism, Funes, and the Frente: Women’s Gains and Losses in El
Salvador’s New Left.” Thematic Session. American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada.
2011
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Demobilization, Remobilization, or Incarceration? Gender Policies as DeRadicalization in El Salvador’s ‘Revolutionary’ Left.” The Processes of Radicalization and
De-Radicalization Conference, sponsored by the International Journal for Research on Conflict and
Violence. Bielefeld, Germany.
2011
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Are Latin American Politics Getting ‘Pinker’? Evidence from El
Salvador.” Thematic Session. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
2010
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Causal Heterogeneity in High Risk Activism.” Thematic Session. Eastern
Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
2009
Viterna, Jocelyn and Killian Clarke. “Neither Civil Society nor State: Re-conceptualizing the
‘NGO Regime’ and its Consequences for the Global South.” Politics of Non-State Welfare
Provision conference, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
Cambridge, Massachussetts.
2009
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Analyzing the 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador.” David
Rockefeller Tuesday Seminar Series, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2009
Viterna, Jocelyn. “From Civil War to Civil Society: Women’s Political Participation in El
Salvador.” Women in Politics: Global Perspectives conference, Mershon Center for
International Security Studies, Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.
2008
Viterna, Jocelyn. “When Women Wage War: Explaining the Personal and Political
Consequences of Guerrilla Activism in El Salvador.” Invited for presentation at:
University of Colorado, Boulder, Women’s Studies Colloquium
Boston University Sociology Colloquium
Northwestern University Sociology Colloquium
McGill University Center for Research and Teaching on Women Seminar Series
Indiana University Politics and Economy Workshop
2007
Viterna, Jocelyn. “When Women Wage War: Explaining the Personal and Political
Consequences of Guerrilla Activism in El Salvador.” Invited for presentation at:
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Boston College Sociology Colloquium
Yale University Seminar on Order, Violence, and Conflict
University of North Florida Seminar on Inequalities in the Global Context
Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Princeton University Department of Sociology
University of Michigan Department of Sociology
Arizona University Department of Sociology
Brown University Department of Sociology
Harvard University Department of Sociology
2007
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Revolutionaries, Politicians, and Revolutionary Politics: The Enduring
Legacies of Revolution for Central American Democracies.” Thematic Session. American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, New York.
2005
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Ethnographies and Interviews in Latin America.” Panel member, Stone
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Tulane University. New Orleans,
Louisiana.
2004
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Re-thinking ‘Popular’ Mobilization in Latin America: The Case of
Revolutionary El Salvador.” Legacies of Violence: Memory and Political Transition in
Central America and the Southern Cone conference, Stone Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Tulane University. New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004
Viterna, Jocelyn. “How Interviewing the Grassroots can Muddy your Results: Negotiating
Personal Biases and Failed Expectations during Field Research in El Salvador.” Danger in the
Field Workshop, University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin.
2002
Viterna, Jocelyn. “September 11: How the World Saw It.” Special Session for Indiana
University’s Public Speaker Series. Bloomington, Indiana.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Where Abortion is Illegal: Interrogating Place in the Politics of Abortion.”
Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting. Memphis, TN
2015
Viterna, Jocelyn, Emily Clough and Killian Clarke. “Reclaiming the ‘Third Sector’ from ‘Civil
Society’: A New Agenda for Development Studies.” Sociology of Development Annual
Meeting, Brown University.
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2014
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Narrativos de maternidad en tiempos de guerra y tiempos de paz.” XII
Congreso Centroamericano de Historia. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2011
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Neither State nor Civil Society: Re-conceptualizing the “NGO Regime”
and its Consequences for the Global South. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2010
Viterna, Jocelyn and Killian Clarke. “Neither Civil Society nor State: Re-conceptualizing the
‘NGO Regime’ and its Consequences for the Global South.” International Sociology
Association Annual Meeting. Gothenburg, Sweden.
2008
Fallon, Kathleen, Liam Swiss, and Jocelyn Viterna. “Resolving the Democracy Paradox:
How Democratization Affects Women’s Legislative Representation in Developing Nations.”
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
2007
Viterna, Jocelyn. “NGOs and the Benevolent Weakening of States.” Social Science History
Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.
2006
Viterna, Jocelyn, Kathleen M. Fallon, and Jason Beckfield. “Gender, Development and
Democracy: Re-examining the Variation in Women’s Cross-National Legislative
Representation.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
2006
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Women with Guns: Transforming and Reinforcing Femininities in
Salvadoran Guerrilla Camps.” International Sociological Association World Congress.
Durban, South Africa.
2005
Viterna, Jocelyn, Ramaah Sadasivam, and Andrea Wilbon. “The Gendered Consequences of
Guerrilla Participation in El Salvador.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2005
Viterna, Jocelyn, and Kathleen M. Fallon. “Creating New Political Molds?: Women’s
Movements in the Transitioning Countries of Ghana and El Salvador.” American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Gender and Differential Participation in Salvadoran Guerrilla Camps.”
Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada.
2004
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Re-thinking ‘Popular’ Mobilization in Latin America: The Case of
Revolutionary El Salvador.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San
Francisco, California.
2004
Hite, Amy and Jocelyn Viterna. “Gendering Class in Latin America: How Women Effect
and Experience Change in the Class Structure.” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting. San Francisco, California.
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2003
Viterna, Jocelyn. “Pulled, Pushed and Persuaded: Explaining Women’s Micro-Level
Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
2002
Bradshaw, York, Kathleen M. Fallon, and Jocelyn Viterna. “Wiring the World: Technology
and Development in Comparative Perspective.” Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st
Century (EEI21) Symposium. Memphis, Tennessee.
2000
Viterna, Jocelyn and Kent Redding. “More than Motherhood: Explaining Women’s High
Risk Activism in El Salvador.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
Washington, D.C.
1999
Viterna, Jocelyn and Douglas W. Maynard. “How Standardized is ‘Standardization?’
Variation Within and Across Survey Centers.” American Association of Public Opinion
Research. Portland, Oregon.
1998
Redding, Kent and Jocelyn Viterna. “Political Demands, Political Opportunities: Explaining
the Differential Success of Left-Libertarian Parties.” American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California.
AWARDS & HONORS
2015
Mirra Komarovsky Distinguished Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
2015
Global Division Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2014
Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological
Association
2014
Distinguished Book Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association
2014
Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Development Section of the
American Sociological Association
2013
Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
2009
Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University
(One of three faculty recipients, university-wide)
2001
Edwin H. Sutherland Award for Excellence in Teaching, Indiana University
2000
Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA), Indiana University
1995
B.A. awarded summa cum laude with Honors in Sociology
1991
Putnam Scholar (four years full tuition scholarship), Kansas State University
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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2014
Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar Grant (with Peggy Levitt, Wellesley University)
($18,830)
2013
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Research Conference Grant (with Ana
Langer, Harvard School of Public Health)
($11,900)
2013
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Mini-Conference Grant
($4,000)
2012
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Medium Faculty Grant
($25,000)
2010
Milton Fund Grant, Harvard University
($35,000)
2007
Clark Fund Research Grant, Committee on Faculty Research, Harvard University
($6,000)
2006
Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Academy for International Affairs, Harvard University
(Post-doctoral Fellowship)
2004
Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, Tulane University
($4,000)
2002
Glen D. and Dorothy E. Stewart Family Fellowship, Indiana University (Sociology)
($12,000—Awarded for Excellence in Research and Teaching)
2001
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
($19,000)
2001
P.E.O. Scholar Award, a dissertation improvement grant for women doctoral candidates
($8,000)
1998
Social Sciences Research Council International Pre-dissertation Fellowship
($13,000)
1997
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
($10,000)
1996
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
($4,000)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University Graduate Courses:
Sociology of Gender (1 semester)
Sociological Research Design (4 semesters)
Qualifying Paper Workshop (1 semester)
Teaching Practicum (4 semesters)
Harvard University Undergraduate Courses:
Global Social Movements (2 semesters)
Gender in Developing Nations (2 semesters)
Development in Theory and Practice (1 semester)
Mobilizing for Change: Social Movements & Revolutions Around the World (1 semester)
Introduction to Social Movements (2 semesters)
Harvard University Directed Readings Courses (graduate and undergraduate):
Reproductive Rights in Latin America, Domenica Merino, Spring 2015
Demobilization and Reintegration of Guerrilla Combatants, Sergio Segrera, Spring 2013
Sociology of Development, Charlotte Lloyd, Fall 2012
Teaching Practicum, Catherine Turco, Fall 2010
Social Movements and the Environment, Molly Strauss Fall 2010
Social Movements and Organizing, Lewis Bollard Fall 2008
Feminist Theory, Catherine Turco Spring 2008
FLACSO-Cuba:
Diseño de Investigacion en las Ciencias Sociales
(Invited to teach a 1-week course in Spanish on recent advances in social science research
design to 48 PhDs in Havana, Cuba; course co-funded by the Ford Foundation and the
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard)
Tulane University Graduate Courses:
Qualitative Research Analysis (1 semester)
Political Sociology of Latin America (1 semester)
Gender in Latin America (3 semesters)
Tulane University Undergraduate Courses:
Global Social Change (6 semesters)
Social Problems (1 semester)
Latin American Social Structures (1 semester)
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Indiana University Undergraduate Courses:
Inequality in Global Perspective (6 semesters)
Social Inequality (1 semester)
Kansas State University, Undergraduate Labs:
Physical Anthropology Lab (4 semesters)
Student Success Seminar/Introduction to Sociology/Introduction to Psychology
(2 semesters)
ADVISING
Dissertation Committees:
(* indicates committee chair or graduate advisor)
Eleni Arzoglou
Emily Clough
Katie Derzon*
Jeremy Levine
Charlotte Lloyd*
Eun Sil Oh
Jessica Tollette
Holly Wood*
Francis Patrick O’Connor (2014, European University Institute)
Hsin-chao Wu (2014)
Shawna Vican (2014)
Chana Teeger (2013)*
Kevin Lewis (2012)*
Tamara Pavasovic (2012)
Chris Bail (2011)
Catherine Turco (2011)
Qualifying Paper/M.A. Thesis Committees:
(* indicates committee chair)
Charlotte Lloyd (2015)*
Elizabeth Hansen (2014)*
Eun Sil Oh (2014)
Ryann Manning (2013)
Jonathan Mijs (2013)
Jessica Tollette (2013)
Caitlin Daniel (2012)
Carly Knight (2012)
Sabrina Huang (2011)*
Katie Derzon (2011)
Holly Wood (2011)
Chana Teeger (2008)*
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Catherine Turco (2008)
Ramaah Sadasivam (2006)*
Erica Dudas (2006)
Bethany Seymour (2006)
Erica Roggeveen (2005)*
Carmen Garcia Prieto (2005)
Krystin Krause (2005)
Amisha Sharma (2005)
Senior Thesis Advisor:
Kefhira Pintos (2014)
Miriam Pysychas (2013)
Herrissa Lamothe (2012)
Winner: Albert M. Fulton Prize for Best Thesis in Sociology
Sojourner Rivers (2012)
Danielle Gram (2011)
Winner: Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Theses at Harvard University; Philippe
Wamba Prize for Best Thesis in African Studies; and the Reverend Peter J. Gomes Prize for Best
Thesis in Religion and Ethnicity
Ridhi Kashyap (2010)
Winner: Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Theses at Harvard University and the
Alexis de Tocqueville Award for Best Thesis in Social Studies
Neagheen Homaifar (2010)
Killian Clarke (2009)
Winner: Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Theses at Harvard University
Thesis published in Mobilization, a peer-reviewed sociology journal (Volume16 (4): 490-509.)
Jade Reichling (2009)
Lori Adleman (2008)
Jesse Zwick (2008)
Awarded Summa Cum Laude minus by independent graders
Ashley Pletz (2008)
Heather Cook (2005)
Wendy Blake (2004)
Kat Rito (2004)
Oral Exam Committees:
(* indicates committee chair)
Jessica Tollette (2014)
Eun Sil Oh (2014)
Dong Ju Lee (2012)
Holly Wood (2012)
Sabrina Huang (2012)
Nicole Deterding (2011)
Kevin Lewis (2009)*
Chana Teeger (2009)*
Tamara Pavasovic (2008)
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Catherine Turco (2008)
Danielle Hidalgo (2006)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Advisor:
Ridhi Kashyap (Spring 2009-Spring 2010)
Master in Liberal Arts Thesis Advisor, Harvard Extension School:
Francisco Javier Jaimes (2013)
Andor Cakanj (2012)
Pre-doctoral Fellowship Supervisor:
Amanda Shriwise, Oxford University, United Kingdom (2015)
Andrea de la Barrera Montppellier , Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, México
(2014)
Armin Mueller, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2014)
Author’s Conference Commentator:
Evgeny Finkel, George Washington University (2015)
Erin Beck, Oregon (2014)
Ceren Belge, Harvard (2008)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editorial Board Member:
American Sociological Review (2012-2015)
Mobilization (2008-present)
Associate Editor, Mobilization (2015-present)
Sociology of Development (2015-present)
Latin American Research Review (2012-present)
Section Leadership, American Sociological Association:
Section on the Sociology of Development
2016-2017
Chair
2015-2016
Chair-Elect
2011-2014
Founding Council Member
2011-2014
Publications Committee Chair (authored a successful proposal for a new
“Sociology of Development” peer reviewed journal that is now published by
the University of California Press)
2013-2014
Nominations Committee
2013-2014
Student Paper Award Committee Chair
2011-2013
By-laws Committee Chair
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2011
Co-author of the section by-laws
Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
2015-2018
Secretary-Treasurer
Section on Sex and Gender
2015
Distinguished Book Award Committee
Conference Organization and Discussion:
2015
Conference Discussant, “Descentralización y políticas sociales locales: metodologías de
diseño y evaluación de experiencias de Cuba y América Latina ,” co-sponsored by
FLACSO-Cuba, the University of Havana, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, and the Ford Foundation. Havana, Cuba
2015
Co-Organizer, Conference on “Global Social Protection.” Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar,
Harvard University
2014
Co-Organizer, Conference on “The Politics of Abortion in Central America.” David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
2014
Panel Discussant. “Liberalization of Abortion Laws: Political and Social Forces in Mexico
and Uruguay.” Symposium on Reproductive Rights in Latin America, jointly sponsored by
the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Inter-American Dialogue, Washington D.C.
2014
Panel Discussant. “Legacies for Civil Society.” Legacies of Political violence in
Contemporary Peru Conference, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
Harvard University
2013
Panel Discussant, “Reduction.” Ethnocultural Diversity and Governance: Conflict and
Consolidation Workshop. Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University
2013
Panel Organizer and Discussant, “Violence, the State, and the New Economy.” Political
Sociology Mini-Conference, New York, NY
2013
Panel Presider and Discussant, “Transnational Processes.” Regular Session, American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY
2012
Panel Organizer and Discussant, “Rebirth of Development Sociology: New Findings, New
Models.” Section Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
2012
Panel Discussant, “Transnational Movements and Gender,” American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
2012
Panel Organizer, “El Salvador: 20 Years of ‘Peace’?” Central American Studies Section
Session, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
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2011
Panel Presider and Discussant, Works in Progress Section, Mini-Conference for the Section
on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, Las Vegas, NV
2011
Panelist, “Navigating Parenthood in Academe.” American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
2010
Panel Organizer, “Development and Gender.” Regular session, American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
2010
Panel Discussant, “Inequality and Citizenship” session, American Sociological Association
Annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
2010
Panel Presider, “Gender Equality and Democratic Development” session, American
Sociological Association Annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
2002
Panel Presider, “New Directions in Framing Theory” session, American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
Peer Reviewing:
Peer Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Mobilization,
Latin American Research Review, Politics and Gender, Social Forces, The Sociological Quarterly, Social Problems,
Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Studies in Comparative International
Development, Critical Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Theory, Theory and Society, Gender and Society,
multiple university presses, and the National Science Foundation
Other:
2013-2015
Country Expert for El Salvador, Varieties of Democracy database construction
2000
Video Production Assistant, Cicatriz de la Memoria, with Carlos Henriquez Consalvi
(El Museo de la Palabra y el Imagen in El Salvador) and Jeffrey Gould (Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University)
SERVICE TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Leadership Roles:
2015-Present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology
2015-2016
Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Commission of Inquiry
2013-Present Inaugural Executive Committee and Advisory Council Member, Harvard College
Women’s Center
2011-Present Co-Director, Transnational Studies Initiative, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs
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Faculty Lecture, Harvard Latin American Clubs & SIGs Leaders Meeting
2015
Faculty Lecture, Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony
2015
Moderator, “Effective Mobilizing: A Discussion of How to Maximize the Impact of
Black Lives Matter.” Sponsored by the Service to Society Freshman Council.
2007-2009
& Fall 2014
Colloquium Committee Chair, Department of Sociology
2010-2011
Coordinator and Facilitator, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Tuesday Seminar
2009, 2010
Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Associates’ Thesis Conference Session Chair
Committees:
2015-Present Faculty Oversight Committee for the Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean
Program (MCCP), David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
2015
Alex G. Booth Fund Fellowship Selection Committee
2014-2015
Committee on Undergraduate Degrees, Department of Sociology
2013-2014
General Exam Committee, Department of Sociology
2013-2014
Space Planning Committee, Department of Sociology
2013
Harvard College Women's Leadership Award Selection Committee
2012-2013
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Committee on Women,
Gender, and Sexuality
2010-2011
General Exam Committee, Department of Sociology
2008-2009
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology
SERVICE TO TULANE UNIVERSITY
2006
Undergraduate Curriculum Development, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
2005
Coordinator, Carlos Henriquez Consalvi’s week in residence
2004-2006
Faculty Sponsor, Amnesty International Student Organization
2003-2006
Faculty Sponsor, Alpha Kappa Delta honorary
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2003-2006
Latin American Library Committee, Stone Center for Latin American Studies
2003-2006
Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology
2004-2005
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology
2003-2004
Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology
OTHER SERVICE
Consultant to Amnesty International for their report entitled Al Borde de la Muerte: Violencia Contra las
Mujeres y Prohibición del Aborto en El Salvador (On the Brink of Death: Violence Against Women and
the Abortion Ban in El Salvador). September 2015.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/on-the-brink-of-death-violence-against-women-andthe-abortion-ban-in-el-salvador
Expert testimony provided for six USIS asylum cases (2008-2012)
Board Vice President and Financial Director, Louisiana Bucket Brigade (a grassroots organization
working against industrial pollution in the Mississippi Delta), New Orleans, Louisiana (2004-2006)
Crisis Line Volunteer and Spanish Interpreter, Middle Way House (supporting victims of rape and
domestic violence), Bloomington, Indiana (2000-2003)
Regional Coordinator, International Observer mission for the 1999 Presidential Elections, Center
for International Solidarity, Cuscatlán, El Salvador (1998)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
American Political Science Association
International Sociological Association
International Studies Association
Eastern Sociological Association
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
LANGUAGES
English (native)
Spanish (fluency)
Portuguese (reading proficiency)